One in the Eye for pro sportPrivate Eye was 50 on Tuesday. There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 - six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper - but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it.
It happens I was in on the history from the start. Those first scraggy issues through that harsh winter of 1961-62 were produced in artist Willie Rushton's bedroom in his mother's house in Scarsdale Villas, off Kensington High Street. I dossed down in a bedsit in adjoining Marloes Road - catching a Greenline bus each morning for shifts on the Slough Observer - and Willie and I occasionally laughed and drank in the Princess of Teck local; that summer of 1962 we watched the Pakistanis at Lord's and had a memorable day together at the Wimbledon tennis.
(Private Eye editor Ian Hislop is pictured.)
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